108. Kensington Park, Delta

Charlotte and I found ourselves in Delta this morning after attending a "Geocachers Breakfast" at the Skyhawk Restaurant at the Boundary Bay airport.  I've been to this playground before in search of the nearby geocache, "Jiminy 'What'?".  It was such a warm sunny day today; I can hardly believe it's only February.  Charlotte raced up the climbing mountain over and over again, climbed up the slide and slid down on her tummy and generally had the time of her life.  The playground is located at N 49.05.294 W 123.02.651 and is point no. 108 on the map at the bottom of home page.

107. Kilmer Park, Blaine, Washington

Our geocaching day came to an end relatively early as Mr. ClueFinders had a long drive back to Seattle ahead of him.  So when Charlotte asked me if we could go to the playground after we dropped our friend back at his car, I saw no reason why we shouldn't, though the sun was starting to set.  We met a boy named Kason and his dad at the playground; we chatted with them for a bit before they had to go, attempting to hop a fence and cross private property on their way back to grandma's house!  Charlotte had fun playing on the rocking frog and playing with a ball that she had found.  We played until we were too cold and hungry to play any more, and then we headed off to find our dinner.  The playground is located at N 48.59.998 W 122.44.519 and is point no. 107 on the map at the bottom of home page.

106. Brickyard Park, Blaine, Washington

We headed south of the border this morning to meet Mr. ClueFinders for a few hours of caching around Blaine and Semiahmoo.  Since we never know how long the border line-up is going to be, we gave ourselves plenty of time and as luck would have it, we were across in 20 minutes and had lots of time to check out a new playground.  I had looked up a couple of playgrounds in Blaine and this was one of them, though it turned out to be a little much for Charlotte.  It had a structure to climb on and nothing else; it was made of rope and was more than Charlotte was up for.  But she still enjoyed running around and doing some balancing, as did Theo.  There was no geocache hidden in the park, though there wasn't really anywhere much to hide anything more than a micro.  The playground is located at N 48.59.049 W 122.44.306 and is point no. 106 on the map at the bottom of home page.

105. Tumwater Falls Park, Tumwater, Washington

We stopped off on our way home from Oregon to find a geocache that started with "Z" for a challenge I'm working on.  The cache had been muggled, but it almost didn't matter because we re-discovered this beautiful park.  Pete and I realized we had been here before in 2010, when we had found another geocache here.  We explored the area around the waterfalls and maybe one day we will have chance to explore the trails that run beside the Deschutes River.



As we walked back to the car, we stopped off at the little playground.  It wasn't a typical swings-and-slides playground, but it had two boats to climb and play on.  There were a few other kids there too and one of the girls gave Charlotte a little bottle of bubbles, which thrilled her to bits, of course.  The playground is located at N 47.00.832 W 122.54.294 and is point no. 105 on the map at the bottom of home page.

104. Cannon Beach Playground, Cannon Beach, Oregon

We have all been so sick lately that playground visits have been in short supply.  We have re-visited one or two favourites lately, but mostly we have been languishing at home, trying to shake our sniffles and coughs while watching "Paw Patrol".  This week though, we are on vacation in Cannon Beach and though the sniffles have followed us down to Oregon, the weather was beautiful and just perfect for a visit to the local playground in between our beach explorations.  The playground was just a couple of blocks from our motel and it was a decent playground with a high climbing mountain - which Charlotte scaled with no problem whatsoever!  It's amazing how quickly she can go from needing help with something to being completely independent.  After we had finished working up an appetite at the playground, we set off to find the nearby geocache, "Cannonfloria plasticus" and then for lunch at the Lumberyard.  After that, it was back to the motel for more sniffle-nursing, at least for me!  The playground is located at N 45.53.942 W 123.57.579 and is point no. 104 on the map at the bottom of home page.